get out of your comfort

The greatest enemy of your human potential is your comfort zone…

You can only achieve the art of living and happiness if you are willing to step out of your comfort zone, what you're attached to because it's so familiar, you often hold on to it even though it's not that great. you think: "I know what I have now and not what I'm getting.". So you are afraid of the unknown, where only the known could scare you. Fear is also a bad counselor.

I have published a brochure called: ‘Hoe gaat het?’, with a qualitative research into what people answer when asked how they are doing. At first most people say 'good', if you keep asking, answers like: 'I can not complain'(no party so), "It's okay"(not very great either) and 'Nothing special'(if life is not particularly!). They are in the comfort zone of not very good and not very bad.

Often things first have to go very badly in the form of an illness or crisis in order for people to repent, as happened to me..

There is a story of a woman, with which things did not go well she went for advice to a sage and he said to her:“Let go of the bad in you and replace it with the good”. The woman did and after a while came back to the sage to thank him, to her surprise the sage then said: Now let go of the good and replace it with the great. She did that too and after a while she was fine and she went back to the sage to thank him. To her astonishment the sage now said:"Let go of the great too and replace it with the magisterial", divine'. There is a reason in the Bible: "Know ye not that ye are gods"?’, so no, otherwise we would all be artists of life and happy.

We often stick to fair to good. In a course I attended, participants were asked to rate their quality of life in school, most of them only got a six, a few came with a 7 and they thought there was no more. We only use 5% van ons potentieel, so there's a lot more in it. Wayne Dyer said very nicely: 'Don't die with your music still in you….’.

Bron: Book 'Art of Living & geluk’ – Henny Bos (will end 2012)